The ground beneath Tehran is subsiding and drinking water is increasingly scarce, risking the health and safety of 15 million people who live in the Iranian city’s metropolitan area. Ground subsidence ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The city depends on five major reservoirs for its water supply. One has dried up ...

Fall marks the start of Iran’s rainy season, but large parts of the country have barely seen a drop as the nation faces one of its worst droughts in decades. Several key reservoirs are nearly dry, and ...

Iran is facing its worst water crisis in a decade, with dangers looming that the capital city of Tehran might become uninhabitable soon. As the city continues to pray for rain, President Masoud ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Rain fell for the first time in months in Iran’s capital Wednesday, providing a brief respite for the parched Islamic Republic as it suffers through the driest autumn in over a ...